Powerlink (advice agency) response - MCU2/0184

Material Change of Use, of premises, means-
(a)       the start of a new use of the premises; or
(b)       the re-establishment on the premises of a use that has been abandoned; or
(c)       a material   change in the intensity or scale of the use of the premises.

Phase to Earth Fault      -
                             A short circuit connection from a transmission line wire to the ground.
An ex     mple is a tree in contact with the bottom conductor of a transmission line.

Reconfiguration means the subdivision or amalgamation of a lot.

Transferred Potential      -
                               consider the ~ituation where a long metallic structure (eg a fence)
passes in close proximity to an earthing system for a transmission line or substation. In the
event of a fault on the transmission line or substation, transferred potential is the mechanism
where the adjacent metallic object can rise in voltage and transfer this voltage to the remote
end of the object (i.e. the far end of the fence) where a person may be in contact with it.


Transmission Entity      -
                             in Queensland this refers to the Queensland Electricity Transmission
Corporation Limited.

Wayleave Easements a permission that is unregistered to construct, operate and maintain
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Electricity Works across land. This permission may take the form of written agreements,
licenses, permits to occupy or some other form of approval.

4.        APPROVALS


4.1       General


To ensure the policy is applied consistently, all approvals of co-use applications or activities
affecting Easements will be notified in writing and will include the general conditions set out
in Annexure A.


The Manager Network Property has the authority to grant such approvals.


Where specified, or where there is any doubt, evaluations will be based on an engineering
assessment which         may    require   a   preconstruction inspection and/or a post-construction
inspection.

4.2       Local Authority Approvals and SPA


4.2..1    SPA


Where Easemehts have been designated for community infrastructure under the Sustainable
Planning Act 2009 (SPA),the easements must be recorded in the local authority’s planning
scheme and maps. Prior to the introduction of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 (SPA),the
Electricity Act 1994 contained a provision that required the incorporation of Powerlink’s
operating works and totally vacant easements on local authority’s maps and in any new
planning schemes.

Powerlink is an Advice Agency under the Sustainable Planning Regulation 2009 for:


      .   The reconfiguration of a lot if:


          ~   any part of the lot is subject to an Easement in favour of a Distribution Entity or
              Transmission Entity under the Electricity Act 1994 and the Easement is for a
              transmission grid or distribution supply network under that act; or
          ~   any part of the lot is situated within 100 metres of a substation site; and


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